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01.09.2014 Editorial

Unite For Ghana

By Daily Guide
Unite For Ghana
01.09.2014 LISTEN

If the results were not emphatic, we do not know what else they are. Long before yesterday's event the voices of the grassroots were audible about the man they wanted to lead the party in the 2016 general elections.

In a political party, the voices of delegates are ignored at the peril of the politician who treads along such a path. Unfortunately, some politicians still thought they could toy with the voices which were resonating across the political plane in the country for reasons we cannot fathom.

Indeed, this time round delegates could not be equated with ghosts in terms of their awesomeness as the immediate past General Secretary of the NPP once said in a humour-packed remark after his defeat at the Tamale elections.

His position that only ghosts can beat delegates in terms of awesomeness has been given a jolt by yesterday's development. The bottom-line of his remark was that delegates are untrustworthy.

We are humbled by the coming to pass of our prediction that Nana Akufo-Addo was going to sweep the polls as delegates spoke without an iota of doubt about their choice.

We recall that some doubting Thomases wondered why we were too sure that delegates could be trusted this time round. We did not gamble because our position was hinged upon the reality on the ground.

Nana Addo, in his less than 500-word address following the outcome of yesterday's polls, revisited what he had always demanded of the NPP, even when he went round seeking the nod of delegates—unity. We are elated that this important virtue continues to find space in his speeches, almost becoming a mantra.

This is one of the qualities we think a flag bearer of the NPP should exude—one who appreciates the contribution of all and therefore operating an open-door policy.

For us, it is a subtle stretching of his hands to those with whom he vied for the position, a gesture which   by all standards is a test of the loyalty of such persons to the party they belong to.

It is our hope and prayer that these fine gentlemen whose qualities we recounted in a previous editorial, will join the campaign that will eventually unseat the incumbent team, whose management of the economy is anything but acceptable and productive.

Ghanaians are yearning for positive changes that would lift them from the state of hopelessness in which they have been entrapped in the past few years at the hands of a clueless bunch.

NPP is more the victor than Nana Akufo-Addo. It is our belief that this and his obsession for a new Ghana informed the stretching of his hands to his colleagues in a spirit of camaraderie. Let them unclench their fists in the face of Nana's stretched hands so that Ghana can work again.

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